The National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research is having a meeting on Friday this coming week. But the meeting is closed to the public.
The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure [...]
With the drama of the election and the recent huge bailout and spending bills flying through Congress, it’s easy to forget the kajillions of little things the federal government is churning out all the time.
So here’s one that caught my eye – the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) [...]
This Associated Press article notes what I wrote here yesterday morning about the annual spending process and the October 1 start of the new fiscal year:
If Congress spends $700 billion this week on a financial services bailout, at least we’ll know where that money went. Before the month is out, Congress will spend hundreds [...]
With less than ten days to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year, Congress hasn’t passed a single annual spending bill. Only last week, the second of twelve bills was introduced in the House. Not passed – introduced. The Senate, at least, has seen nine bills introduced, though it hasn’t [...]
It’s always interesting to me when I come across government Web sites “for kids,” like:
this one from the Environmental Protection Agency
this one from the Department of Agriculture’s Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory
this one from the Patent and Trademark Office
this one from the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration
this one from the National Highway Transportation [...]
The back story here is an obnoxious email that a PR flack at the Small Business Administration sent me.
In, like, 53-point italics, it said I should “call to interview the award winners and discuss the event.” I didn’t know what the event was – the subject line of the email was: “SBA Press Release:” – [...]
I came across an interesting article in my Labor Day weekend reading. (Yes, I do know how to have a good time.)
“What’s the Emergency?” [PDF; scroll down a bit] is the name of an article in the Summer 2008 issue of Regulation magazine, and it illustrates yet another dimension of how the federal spending [...]
Last week, I wrote here about how well federal civilian workers are doing compared to the private sector worker. Well, it might soon get a little better.
H.R. 6339 is called the “Federal Employees Deserve to Volunteer on the Elections Act of 2008.” In addition to giving money to states for recruiting and training [...]
Federal civilian workers earned an average wage of $77,143 in 2007, 61 percent higher than the $48,035 average in the U.S. private sector. That 61 percent pay advantage has increased from a 34 percent advantage in 2000.
Total compensation (wages plus benefits) was $116,450 for the average federal worker in 2007, compared to $57,615 in the [...]
If you were to make a donation toward getting health care to people in need, where would you send your money? Toppenish, Washington? Perhaps Swainsboro, Georgia?
Well, you have made a donation toward getting health care to people in need, and it was sent to Toppenish and Swainsboro, as well as a couple dozen other [...]